Daily Topics - Thursday December 1st, 2011
By shawnt56
Hour One: Why do Republicans think a sexual affair is worse than a sexual assault?
Hour Two: Thom speaks with Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky (D-IL) - disturbing encounter with Blackwater's Erik Prince / Plus, Geeky Science Rocks - scientists discover pigeons more like helicopters?!
Hour Three: What happened to America's "Leisure Society?" / Plus, "I Think We're All Bozos on This Bus" - Firesign Theatre
Comments
#2
RE: Military Contractors -
I'm of the opinion that the fascists learned from the Viet Nam War that one of the biggest obstacles to maintaining that war was the enormous public objection to The Draft. Since then, in order to avoid the public/youth rejection of our wars, they found that by using contractors to provide many of the more mundane functions that the military draft historically provided (food services, transportation, construction, etc.), they, the fascists, could prolong their extremely profitable wars with little public outcry. Our current experience stands as proof of this concept.
#3
10 Hours of video games a day for a week... who gets to play 10 hours of video games for a week? Can the scientist also test what doing repetative tasks for 10 hours a day for a week does to the brain. I mean that's essentially what a video game is, a series of repetative tasks performed with your fingers while you're eyes focus on a video play back. Also what about playing non-violent video games for 10 Hours a day for a week... does that effect the brain? What did these scientist decide was a violent video game? First Person Shooters, Fighting Games (one person vs another or computer in hand to hand combat), Combat Flight Simulators, War Stategy games, Role Playing Games? All of these, some of these, a combination... I'm curious because some of the games I mentioned require fast almost involuntary interaction, while others require more deliberative thought. Also 10 hours of doing something is a lot of hours spent doing one task. I'm not trying to discount what the scientists researched, but whats been presented is generating more questions for me than answering for me.
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#4
I believe that historically, men's egos are threatened by the greater sexual capacity of women. In order to counter a woman's ability to experience multiple sexual orgasms men attempt to keep women suppressed. This is evident in almost all of the fundmental factions of the major religions of the West.
#5
In the early 80's, I distinctly recall having a long discussion with my computer professor regarding the future of productivity with the advent of the micro computer. We both came to the conclusion that the tremendous amount of increased productivity that technology would provide would be absorbed by the wealthy and NOT be realized as increased leisure time or wages by labor. Again, time has proven that to be the case.
#6
I'm not generally a dumb guy ( I didn't think) but how exactly does one go about submitting music for Thom to potentially use as bumper music?
I'm trying to offer this new one I wrote:
http://www.broadjam.com/player/player.php?play_file=36442_523956
#7
Hi antidrudgereport,
This discussion is the place... http://www.thomhartmann.com/forum/2010/06/bumper-music-lets-work-together
Click on "last post" to go to the end of it.
#8
Strategically it is better for Cain to be forced out by something defensible than a crime. The Republican brand can later claim that Cain was wrongfully forced out by them bad-hypocritical lefties over a private sex scandal and completely ignore the alleged crimes.
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